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Discusses the history of the Pan-American Operation and policies that have impacted relations between Brazil and the United States. Adapted from the source document.

Explores those situations in which adaptation is the only available & appropriate response to climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reported that most successful adaptations involve marginal changes rather than fundamental alterations in location & development paths. The crucial role of state institutions & other political & socio-economic factors in preventing conflict & displacement in the context of climate change is discussed, along with the opportunity climate change provides for cooperation in addressing global issues. Adapted from the source document.

In an election year both in Russia & the United States, this article tries to assess the impact of the nearly simultaneous mandates of George W. Bush & Vladimir Putin on the relationship between those two countries. Its main conclusions point to a different 'intensity' in the way they pursued their goals & implemented their policies; to the basic similarity in the means employed by Washington & Moscow in their foreign & national security policies, & to the persistence of the same topics in the Russian-American agenda in these last eight years (the governance model, strategic & security options, energy issues). Adapted from the source document.